Little Ones

Happy Monday!  (Or I guess Tuesday when you’re reading this.)  I’m again finding it hard to motivate myself to do projects.  I’ve been procrastinating by cleaning.  This is very weird.  There might be something wrong with me.  Just about the only thing I clean on a regular basis are the bathrooms and the kitchen.  Everywhere else in the house is full of toys and whenever we clean it, it instantly becomes full of stuff again.  Or worse, full of paper scraps because now Patricia is learning how to use scissors and she leaves piles of snipped up papers in her wake just like Julius used to do.  Usually though she’s snipping up Julius’ artwork (which is also all over the house) so in addition to the wake of little papers from Patricia, there’s tears and crying from Julius.

Julius is still at the temporary daycare location (in a church) so every morning I have to take Patricia into the building to drop off Julius.  She loves this and always gives him a hug and kiss before leaving him for the day.  It’s so darn adorable.  Patricia has gotten more imaginative with her play, and has started building little structures out of magnatiles like Julius likes to do.  This means the magnatiles are a hot commodity.  They also have been playing with the little pegdolls I’ve made a lot more.   They like to use them as people in their magnatile structures – they seem to fit perfectly

For Patricia’s birthday you may recall that I made a fleet of pegdoll fairies for her.  I love painting pegdolls.  I had just finished the A Court of Thornes and Roses series so obviously I had to make one of the fairies the best character in the books.  I’ll leave you to make your own guesses on who the other ones are if you’ve read the series.  If you haven’t read the series, then what are you waiting for?!   I made a cricut template for these so you can cut the wings out of felt using the cricut if you have one!  It makes it so much easier.

Finished fairies hanging out (sorry lighting is terrible)

Fairy Pegdolls

What you’ll need:

• cricut templates:
  • large illyrian wings
  • small butterfly wings
  • medium butterfly wings
  • large butterfly wings
• cricut explore air with fabric blade
• thin, stiff felt (I like this stuff)
• pegdolls of all sizes
• acrylic paints
• mod podge acrylic spray sealer
• hot glue

1. Mount a sheet of felt on a cricut mat (make sure it has good adherence or else use tape to tape it on)
2. With the fabric blade loaded, load the mat and cut wings.
3. Remove wings from mat, set aside for now.
   

   Cutting out a set of wings.

4. Paint pegdolls with your desired color schemes.
   

   After painting the fairies

5. After your fairies are dry, apply 2 coats of mod podge acrylic spray sealer, letting dry according to bottle directions between coats.
   

   Spray paint with mod podge sealer.

6. When sealer is dry, hot glue a set of wings to the back of each fairy.
   

   Hot glue wings on each fairy.

   

   After adding their wings

   

   You may notice I made some mushrooms too! Those are from pegs I cut off the pegboard that was in our closet (before I refinished it and added nicer hooks) and wine bottle corks!